Bryant dairy farm cited for manure spill

9:59 PM,
Apr. 17, 2012

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The Star Press

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management has cited Kevin Muhlankamp, 8876 E. Jay County Road 600-N, for releasing manure into Sherman Ditch, which empties into Hickory Branch, which goes to the Wabash River, and for failing to stop the flow of the pollutant.

The agency says Muhlankamp applied manure from a dairy farm onto a farm field on Feb. 14, 2011. The agency received a call complaining that the manure had been applied to snowy ground and the farmer was sitting on his backhoe watching it run into the ditch.

An inspection by IDEM on Feb. 15 found enough manure on the field to ...